Students use professional equipment. Every student in the program gets to work on their own Dell Precision T1700 workstation. There are never more than 24 students in a class, so students get their hands on the equipment on a daily basis.

Students must apply what they have learned in class to real-world projects. Students take these projects through all stages of the media production process, from scripting and storyboarding to shooting, editing, and compositing.

High school students from eight districts come to Cuyahoga Valley Career Center to get hands-on training on state-of-the-art equipment to give them an advantage when going to college or entering the workplace after graduation.